Vermont Nonprofit Navigator

Explore the organizations and people that power Vermont's $6.8 billion nonprofit economy.

By Andrea Suozzo of Seven Days

This tool was last updated in 2019. It is no longer being updated with new filings. For more info, contact: nonprofits@sevendaysvt.com.

Organizations are required to list board members, key employees and anyone making over $100,000 from this or a related organization.

By default, this table shows results from all filings. Select a year to narrow your search.

Name Year Title Compensation Other Compensation Organization
Steve Luke 2017 1St Vice Comm $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Charlene Farmer-Lewey 2015 Chair $0 $0 FOOD 4 FARMERS
Jennie Stephens Phd 2015 Trustee $0 $0 VERMONT PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH & EDUCATION FUND
Eugene Whitney Jr 2016 Trustee $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Gary Gardner 2017 At Large $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
Al Krawczyk 2017 At Large $0 $0 AMERICAN LEGION
John Rabideau 2016 Trustee/Chair $0 $0 BENEVOLENT & PROTECTIVE ORDER OF ELKS OF THE USA
Sue Gordon 2017 Chair $0 $0 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
Cady Goudreau 2017 Treasurer $0 $0 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
Jonathan Chapple-Sokol 2017 Secretary $0 $0 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
Keiga Matsumoto 2017 Director $0 $0 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
Leah Perkinson 2017 Director $0 $0 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
Birgit Bozek 2017 Director $0 $0 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
Sara White 2017 Director $0 $0 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
Anna Niemiec Until October 2017 2017 Director $0 $0 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
Elizabeth Chant Until October 2017 2017 Director $0 $0 STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC
Tracey Appleton Tarrant 2017 President $0 $0 LOVE LIGHT COMPASSION FOUNDATION INC
Manon O'Connor 2017 Vice President $0 $0 LOVE LIGHT COMPASSION FOUNDATION INC
Alison Abry 2017 Secretary $0 $0 LOVE LIGHT COMPASSION FOUNDATION INC
Kim Dubrul 2017 Board Member $0 $0 LOVE LIGHT COMPASSION FOUNDATION INC
Lisa Barriere 2017 Board Member $0 $0 LOVE LIGHT COMPASSION FOUNDATION INC
David W Butsch 2017 Director $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT MEMORIAL CIVIC CENTER INC
Chuck Eldred 2017 President $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT MEMORIAL CIVIC CENTER INC
Brian Amones 2017 Director $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT MEMORIAL CIVIC CENTER INC
Mike Dellipriscoli 2017 Director $0 $0 CENTRAL VERMONT MEMORIAL CIVIC CENTER INC

About this tool

As of May 2018, Vermont’s 6,044 nonprofits reported $6.8 billion in revenue and $13.2 billion in assets in their latest Internal Revenue Service filings. The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that nearly 18 percent of the state’s workers are employed by 501c3s.

Organizations like ProPublica and Guidestar both offer excellent tools that open up public access to the information contained in IRS 990s, the financial reports nonprofits file annually. But we wanted to be able to dive a little deeper — to see, search, sort and filter the organizations and people that make up Vermont’s nonprofit ecosystem.

So we created this tool. Like dairy? Try searching for the Vermont Cheese Council. How about horses? Check out American Morgan Horse Association or Spring Hill Horse Rescue. You’ll also find the University of Vermont Medical Center, the Committee on Temporary Shelter and Middlebury College.

Then, read Give and Take, our series of stories on Vermont's nonprofit economy.

See something interesting? Want access to this data? Let us know!

About the data

To build a list of Vermont nonprofit organizations, we pulled state listings from the Internal Revenue Service.

Some Vermont nonprofits — about one-third — file digitally. That includes all of the state’s largest nonprofit organizations, like hospitals and colleges, plus many smaller ones. The IRS makes those filings available as XML files for public download, and tools like IRSx make it possible to understand what’s in those data files.

In cases where electronic filings weren’t available, we pulled in PDF versions from ProPublica’s API, so that we could get a better idea of the organizations we were missing.

In all, you’ll find more than 13,500 filings from nonprofit organizations in this database. However, there are some caveats. Not all nonprofits file annual financial reports — those with limited annual revenue, as well as ones that fall into religious, governmental or other exempt categories, are not required to file. And even when organizations file 990s, they don’t always do them right.